Sharon Jones Quotes
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I just want to give my love to God.
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I'm lookin' at these Disney characters, these young girls coming out looking like, little whores.
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My friend Megan Holken is a nutritionist. I have spent some time at her home upstate in Sharon Springs, where she told me how to eat right and cook right.
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I just want to be able to get onstage and move and move around.
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Being with the Dap-Kings is like being an athlete.
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Everything I've done and everything I've gained in my life has been with my music.
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Youth. The fact that, in the mid-'90s, guys like Lee Fields gave me and all these young people the chance to do backup. I was in my 30s, but some of those guys were still teenagers. Others were 22 and 23 - babies, all of them.
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I'm grateful to be alive, because I really did not think I was going to be alive, onstage performing songs.
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I'm coming back to give the people what they want.
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Play with me and you play with fire.
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Every time I do a gig, my goal is getting new fans.
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The only thing I wanted to accomplish was to finally get recognized by the music industry. If you know the awards, answer me this question: Do you see an award for soul music? No. They have R&B, funk, hip-hop and all sorts of contemporary things.
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Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.
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Phish is such a good band; they just make stuff up as a jam band.
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I often call Daptone the Motown and Stax of today. But in some ways it's different. At Motown, a lot of the musicians didn't get recognized, music got stolen, and people didn't get paid. Or the label would just throw them a pinch of money for their songs. That is one thing we're not doing. Anything anyone writes here, we get a percentage.
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My goal for these next few years, for the next forever, is to try and keep positive things around me. If somebody is coming at me with negative stuff, just back away from me.
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I'm blessed to be in an environment where people are sincere.
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Doctors removed my gallbladder and pancreas, which are supposed to break down sugar and alcohol.
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[I've worked as a guard at Rikers Island] from 1988 to 1990.
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I don't want to be home just taking medicine and waiting to die, you know? That's not something I'm about.
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Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at my most.
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I remember my sister and I - my big sister would get up on her chair in the kitchen and sing Mary Wells' "What's Easy for Two Is So Hard for One." It was 1966, and I was 10 years old.
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Once I retire and slow down, I don't want to be in New York. I want to be somewhere near a lake or a pond, so that on my days when I have nothing to do, I can go fishing.
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To be honest, I didn't think I would be here for this album [Give the People What They Want]. I thought I was going to die. When the doctor came in by himself and told me I had cancer, it was frightening. He told me he got it and there would be six months of chemo. I really thought people would be promoting my record without me here to enjoy it. But I'm here.
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I sing because I'm happy.
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I remember going into a raggedy studio, still with my work uniform on. At the time, I was driving money trucks for Wells Fargo, so I had my gun and hat, which weighed me down in the heat. It was 97 degrees here in New York, and they had to turn the air conditioner off because it was too loud. So, I say, "Damn, it's hot in here!" That's how we came up with the song, "Damn, It's Hot." It was from our soul. We just got together, sang and made our own lyrics.
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I tell the songwriter's story. When I read people's lyrics, I'm so amazed. I want to tell this story and make it part of my life. I usually can't write lyrics down, but I can sure tell that story. You've got to make people feel the hurt and love in each song.
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If God watches over a little sparrow, you know, if he takes care of the birds, a little sparrow. Here I am, one of his children, you know, he got so many of us down here. Human beings that send our faith up and believe. And if he watch over a sparrow, I know he watches over me.
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I'm going to keep on keeping on as long as I've got my health and strength, and God gives me that will to do it.
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Maybe I won't have as much energy. And maybe the highs in my voice won't be what they used to be. But exercise is helping me pace myself.
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